robots.txt for Gemini formalised

[John Cowan]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:07 PM Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> wrote:

A web portal is a one-to-one mapping of a user request to a gemini
> request. It's not an automated process. It's a genuine user agent, an
> agent of a user.
>

It is the agent of an arbitrarily large number of users.  That's the
difference between, say, an email user agent and an email gateway to a
non-Internet email system.  There is no reason to impose even soft
regulation on the former.  There is every reason to allow regulation of the
latter.


John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
The experiences of the past show that there has always been a discrepancy
between plans and performance.        --Emperor Hirohito, August 1945
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